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Does it sparkle? Does it jingle?
Sam had a very entertaining weekend, all without playing with “real” toys.
It all started Friday evening when I unearthed an old “treasure chest” in a closet. This was a lunch box, painted gold with fake gemstones glued on it, that I had used in my teaching career several years ago. Thinking it might be fun for Sam, I got it out of the closet and noticed it needed some refurbishing. Off we went to the craft supply store.
Saturday I popped the old gemstones off the box so that I could give it a new coat of gold paint. The old gemstones ended up in a box that a tube of diaper cream had once come in. Sam spent most of the day Saturday dumping those fake gems out of the box and putting them back in one at a time. As a variation of the game, he would set one gem on an old coupon, going through the box and a stack of old coupons till he had used all of them.
By Sunday, most of those plastic stones were lost, so Sam turned his attention to a tin canister of loose change that is on a table where I keep my keys. Again, he would dump the change in the floor and put it back in the canister one coin at a time. A variation was to place coins on the top of his bubble mower and race around the house until they fell off.
For obvious reasons, I preferred him playing with plastic gemstones.
For the record, the treasure chest is now refurbished, complete with new plastic gems. Sam’s more interested in the leftover gemstones than the ones glued on the treasure chest.
Oh, to be young and full of imagination….
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